Alligator Eyes

This is one of those low-low-budget offerings that critics go out of their way to praise and that festivals go out of their way to honor. Despite flashes of idiosyncratic talent, the movie, the feature debut for documentary filmmaker John Feldman, is a glorified student film that compromises its best ideas and self-destructs before its ludicrous climax. A sort of comic riff on film noir mysteries, the film tries to intertwine two different plots. First, it's about the reunion of a lovable drunk, Robbie (Roger Kabler), who can't hold onto a woman, his buddy Lance (Allen McCulloch), and their mutual friend Marjorie (Mary McLain), who once was Lance's lover. Se...